Rubha nam Brathairean today followed by Quiraing. Pleasantly far less rain and far less wind!
Quiraing
Then on to Neist Point lighthouse before dinner.
Skye II - Day 2 | Gallery
We happened to be in Elgol at the right time for the tide to be able to access Spar Cave. Mid-September makes this a relatively busy place despite it’s somewhat treacherous nature. Beautiful flowstone formations in the cave, but the nicest pictures were to be taken outside of the cave.
…Then a quick potter around Portree for more why-am-I-doing-this handheld one-second-plus shutter noodling.
Skye II - Day 1 | Gallery
To the Fairy Pools (Glumagan nan Sithichean) with a wide lens and an ND filter like a slab of MDF. It suited the weather - especially the brooding clouds clinging to the summits of Sgurr an Fheadain. True to form, I essentially drove for two days to come here, carried a tripod on my back all the way there, and couldn’t be bothered putting it together for these long exposures or the 20-shot focus-stacking 1/2 second images I decided like a mug to shoot hand-held.
Skye II - Day 0
Rubberleaf Canyon
Fahrenheit 451
To The Lighthouse
If anybody can explain what happened here, I’d be extremely interested to know. It was just found like this on our bookshelves. (Our soon-to-collapse-due-to-death-watch-beetle bookshelves, potentially.)
Juvenile Jay
Through the bloody window…
3 for 2
Loss
48-Hour Challenge 48 Hours Too Late
Geronimo
48-Hour Challenge - Cambridge Camera Club
“This is a fun 'Competition' for the summer break. You will be given 5 topics to take images of, process and upload within the 48 hours.”
Topics: Contrasts, Natural Beauty, From My Shopping Basket, Reflections, Speed.
Royston Kite Festival 2023
…and also this:
Great Chesterford Photohunt
Cambridge Camera Club set up a photohunt for the summer break: “locate each object [illustrated on the map] and take a photo of it, or from it, or near it – any technique, any subject.”
It’s good to have fairly arbitrary limitations placed on you, but nevertheless it was still really quite difficult, and I leant on the ‘near it’ get-out quite a bit…
Dry Ice Experiments
Big Brother is Watching Yew
Pholcid with Prey
I shot this wide, but think it’s far more effective cropped in. Gives me the willies.
AtlanticUS
Kaleidosouk
Today I had my most hated of jobs. Sitting next to a video link in a shirt just in case somebody needs something interpreting. Hateful as this is (and - lesson learned frankly, I’m not booking these again) it does provide a context in which you must be creative within limited resources. Namely, your house.
Not a kite eating a squirrel
Saw a kite waiting for a gap in the traffic to grab some roadkill. The light and the drama were just right so I zoomed home, picked up the 100-500, and rushed back. After half an hour of waiting for it to return I came home with this.